In a powerful Huffington Post editorial, America Forward advisor Deb Jospin highlights the wealth of opportunities for young people in the “New Service Economy.” While jobs in finance for recent graduates have all but become a thing of the past, opportunities to work in the nonprofit and public sectors abound. Jospin cites America Forward coalition members Sports4Kids, Teach For America, Citizen Schools, and City Year, as examples of organizations that will continue to provide jobs and opportunities for young people.

Sports4Kids currently employs more than 170 coaches to teach a new generation of children how to play fun, time-tested games like kickball and four square. And with plans to expand the program to 650 schools in 27 cities by 2012, Sports4Kids will continue to hire over the next few years.

Sports4Kids is just one among many service organizations that will continue to have job openings. Places like Teach For America, Citizen Schools and City Year are in much the same situation, needing a fresh crop of bright-eyed, enthusiastic college graduates each year to help teach, coach and mentor our nation’s youth.

These organizations, and others like them, are finding effective, innovative solutions to some of the toughest challenges our society faces. As Jospin points out:

The best opportunities may be defined not by the size of the paycheck but by something much less quantifiable, and arguably much more meaningful: Giving to the community, while gaining skills and experiences for a lifetime.

Read the entire text of Deb Jospin’s editorial here.